Crazy Me!

I have been slacking and not updated in a while so here is a quick one.
James and I hosted dinner at our house after church tonight for a couple of families from church - I made brisket, sausage and cookies and they brought the other sides. It was a lot of fun but they all think I am crazy because each of them have 5 kids so we had 10 children 13-almost a year, 6 adults, 2 dogs and a lot of food. Here are pics stolen from their blog. This is the Scott clan - Kylie is the one with curly blonde hair and we are best buds. I am known as Snow White around their house.

And this is the Claridge family. Kristin is my hair colorist so I see her family pretty regularly since she does this out of her home. I'm still getting to know all of them but they are quickly learning to love my desserts. I think Travis would live with me if I kept the cookies around. :-)

It was actually a lot of fun and I didn't mind the craziness at all. I must be nuts right? No, I think it is great because I can send them all home at the end of the night and then they are back to being their mom and dad's problem, once I have loaded them up with ice cream and cookies. :-)

I haven't had a whole lot of other excitement lately. James drove to Amarillo last weekend to pick up his engine for his convertible and the truck broke on the way there. Apparently we are not meant to visit Amarillo with all of our car issues.

I spent the weekend here at home, with a fun surprise party for a friend at church on Friday night and then I watched the Scott' 5 cute little blonde children on Saturday while they were in San Antonio. That was fun but it made me grateful that kids come one at a time usually.

Also-have been watching the Bachelor with a group of ladies each Monday night at 9 and eating junk food and making fun of these insanely crazy women. This has made me decide that if James were to keel over suddenly, I would stay that way instead of facing the piranha pit of dating life again.

I suppose that is enough updating and boring you all to tears for tonight and I am about to pass out so off to sleep I go. Hope you are all doing fantastic and I'll try to post something more interesting as it happens. :-)

Fleischman Christmas/New Years

Happy New Year to everyone! James and I spent the new year with his family this year. We didn't have things work out quite like we had planned but we made it.

So going back to my Christmas present of the GPS so as not to get lost. Make sure you read all instructions before using is the lesson we learned. We left for our drive to Amarillo at about 3 pm. That should have put us there around 11. We got to Brownwood and in playing around with the Garmin found a different route that we thought might be a quicker way to get there.
So we start off. Apparently if you don't have the right settings and miss a turn, the thing recalculates and sets you on a different course. So about 2 hours away from Amarillo by our reckoning...we find ourselves on a dirt road in the middle of nowhere. No stores, other cars, or even homes really. Lots of fields. And it is pitch black. And we hear the sound that no one wants to hear....a blowout. Wouldn't be a problem when you are married to a Fleischman right? They are all about cars and always have tools around.....except on this night.
James had just replaced my brakes which involves removing the wheel...which requires a wheel lock...which was sitting on the work bench at our home.....hours away. Ok not to worry we have cell phones, we'll call a tow truck. Except we are in the MIDDLE OF NOWHERE!!
No cell service except to 911. So we call them to see if they can send a tow truck. They can't find us on a map. So with all the technology that we have 911 is still using a map.
As luck would have it after 30 minutes or so of this, a truck speeds by us and doesn't stop but shortly after a sheriff drives by, sees our hazards on and stops. He calls 3 different tow trucks to get them to come out, but it is New Years Eve and the drunks going to jail offer more money than us so they all can't come. I call my insurance who says I can pay them $228 but they can't guarantee someone will come. Not to worry we call my brother in law Pat, in Lubbock to see if he can come get us in Floydada. Most of you didn't even know that there was such a town right? We were 8 miles outside of there.
So the sheriff drives us to the sheriff's office and we wait for Pat to come get us, then spend the morning of New Year's Day going to Sears (Thank you for being open on a holiday Sears) and getting the necessary tools to go fix our tire to drive to Amarillo for the Fleischman family Christmas.
Needless to say by the time we made it to Christmas dinner, an hour late from the original plan, we were wiped out. So not a lot of pics. I'm stealing these two from Michelle's (sis in law) blog.
Meredith and Macy being quite the ladies and playing the piano.

This usually doesn't last too long and they are wrestling like the boys.

They are quite the entertaining. The boys were actually quite well behaved in the basement with the X-box.
We had a great Christmas and enjoyed getting to hang out even if it was during the Nebraska game. If you know the Fleischmans there isn't much that will get in the way of a Nebraska game. So we all turned off the cell phones, avoided tv and computer until we could get to Dan's house to watch the DVR'd game. It was a good game with Nebraska winning.
On Friday I went to see Marly and Me with Susan and Michelle after getting 4 new tires for my car. For those of you that have no idea what this movie is about, or who are dog lovers....go prepared with your kleenex. You will need it. It was a good movie and I always enjoy getting to spend time with the sisters in law. We missed Krista though. She had to work on Friday so was back in Lubbock.
Saturday was pretty laid back - Susan and Macy and I went to a girls day at the movies and saw Beverly Hills Chihuahua. As you can imagine this was a Macy choice. She thought it was quite entertaining though.
We made it home Sunday without any issues which was nice for a change. Stopped in to see Ashley in Lubbock and have lunch on the way home and made it home before midnight so we could unpack and get ready for the next week.
Now that all the holidays are over I'm sad because I have to wait until May for another holiday off of work. :-) Isn't that how it always goes?
But I hope you all enjoyed your holidays and are looking forward to a great new year. I need to get started on my resolutions and then resolve to actually keep them this year.